Editing Vanara (section)

==D&D==
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The D&D vanara appeared in the second ''Oriental Adventures'' (the 3e one), where they are described as looking like... well, humanoid monkeys; essentially if you took a large Indian Monkey, semiprehensile tail and all, and gave it the torso and limb proportions of a human. Mentally, they're also very monkey-like; curious and bluntly honest, but at the same time incredibly loyal, quite brave, and genuinely kind.

Under the [[alignment]] system, they are described as being strongly chaotic and equally strongly good; they show little if any respect for social mores, rules with no purpose they can understand, or codes of discipline, but they hate tyranny and oppression as well all other forms of evil. They can force themselves to tolerate caste systems, but they are never truly accepting of them; different gifts may be given to different people, but valuing those gifts differently is an idea to reject, by their personal philosophy.

::+2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Strength
::Medium
::Base speed 30 feet
::Climb speed 20 feet
::+8 racial bonus on all climb checks, can always take 10 when climbing, can make an accelerated climb move at 30 feet per round and with only a single Climb check with a -5 penalty
::Low-light vision
::+4 racial bonus on Balance and Jump checks
::+2 racial bonus on Hide & Move Silently checks
::Favored Class: [[Shaman]]

The 3.5 update in  ''[[Dragon Magazine]] #318'' says to "Remove the vanara's ability score adjustments" and nothing else.